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If you find yourself disgusted by Nietzsche writing on ‘masters and slaves’ consider this.

The problem is about the mentality, about the inside, it’s about how your inner self work and it’s not about degrading others.

We live in a thunderstorm of information and influences in which we try to maneuver blindfolded.

Only those who remain in control of their behavior, those who know how to steer through do possess an agency, the rest is passive to those forces, even worse they are not conscious of the chains.

But now, being master/slave is about having control of your own actions of your own direction, it’s not determined, it’s not fixed like it was for those categories in the ancient past. It’s about you trying to become better all the time.

It’s as much a philosophy as a motivational guidelines.

Learn the difference between what you want and what someone wants you to want.

In this essay an aphorism is presented, and the essay itself is a commentary on it. Of course, in order to practice this style of reading as an art, one thing is above all essential—something that today has been thoroughly forgotten (and so it will require still more time before my writings are “readable”)— something for which one almost needs to be a cow, at any rate not a modern man— rumination.

Proust wanted autonomy and beauty; Nietzsche and Heidegger wanted autonomy and sublimity; Nabokov wanted beauty and self preservation;Orwell wanted to be of use to people who were suffering.They all succeeded. Each of them was brilliantly, equally, successful.